Artist
Claudio Filippini
Biography
Claudio Filippini is an Italian jazz pianist and composer, born in Pescara in 1982. He graduated from the G. B. Pergolesi Conservatory in Fermo and developed his jazz training through workshops with musicians including Kenny Barron, George Cables, Enrico Pieranunzi and Franco D’Andrea.
He received scholarships to Columbia College in Chicago and Siena Jazz, won the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe piano competition in 2002 and the Massimo Urbani Award in 2003. In 2004 he formed a trio with bassist Luca Bulgarelli and drummer Marcello Di Leonardo, recording for CAM Jazz and performing internationally. Between 2010 and 2014 he toured with Mario Biondi.
His activities encompass solo performance, ensemble work, composition and arranging for cinema and theatre. He teaches jazz piano at the Luisa D’Annunzio Conservatory in Pescara and founded Filippismo Music in 2023. On Road Movie, he plays piano in Piero Delle Monache’s Miramare, recorded live in Chieti in 2012.